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    "id": 835481,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "House an opportunity to redeem that procedural or impunity oversight by the Committee. The Speaker directed the Committee to submit its Report to the House within 30 days. More importantly, the House cannot be seen to be establishing a precedent or condoning the condemning of persons without affording them an opportunity to be heard. Why am I contributing? This is because I really felt this is a very important matter. It has never happened in my life as a Member of Parliament where a citizen – either a corporate or an individual – complains to the Committee on Implementation and a Report that was adopted by the House is amended. We have taken a very good step. Hon. Kenta, who is the Chair of the Committee on Implementation, needs to look at the previous reports or ask Kenyans who felt, in one way or the other, that they were indicted in a report of Parliament to report. Reports of Parliament become records of the House for years to come. For example, if you are public servant and a recommendation that you cannot hold a public office is adopted by this House, that will live with you until you die. If there are Kenyans who are watching me who in one way or the other were not given a hearing in a report of the House, please, this afternoon the Committee on Implementation has given us an opportunity to relook and to look back at the steps that we have missed as a House. Hon. Speaker, you know any time sugar is mentioned, my Whip of the Majority Party does not want to know what it means. He will wake up. It tells you that 80 to 90 per cent of the economic activity of the people he represents in Mumias is sugar-cane growing. He played a big role in the 11th Parliament in this Report only that that report has not been implemented by the Government in most of the recommendations. Hon. Kenta, as much as you have saved Kenafric, your main function is to make sure that the Report on the sugar crisis is implemented both to the letter and spirit of the contents of that Bill. The Committee observed that Kenafric Industries Limited was not afforded an opportunity by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to present their submissions either before or after the preparation and adoption of the Committee’s Report. I think Hon. T.J. will agree with me because he was in the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee or in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) where, when PAC was dealing with the matter on the accounts of the Judiciary, the former Chief Justice, Hon. Willy Mutunga, in writing, refused to appear before the Committee. So, if somebody writes and refuses to appear before a committee, then the committee is at liberty to do any indictment on that individual. However, here it is the contrary. We have an entity that says “I want to be heard” through its advocate and then the Committee did not agree. This is very important. Hon. Junet and I have some other matters which are coming so he really wants me to conclude. I will conclude because we had an agreement earlier that this Report is adopted and Kenafric Industries Limited, whose Member of Parliament is Hon. T.J. Kajwang… He does not represent them because of any other interests. He told me they employ over 10,000 people who are the citizens of his constituency. In future, they should establish their next factory in Garissa Township if they want to see proper representation in the House. Please tell Kenafric Industries Limited that their next factory should be in Garissa so that I join forces with Hon. T.J. in defending their rights on the Floor of the House. I beg to support."
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